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Playwright, Actor and Director Elena Carapetis,
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'Playwright, actor and director Elena Carapetis’s latest project brings teenage bad-ass Antigone to the present day. By Jane Howard.'
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[Review] City of Gold,
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review
— Review of City of Gold 2019 single work drama ;'At its heart, Meyne Wyatt’s City of Gold is about a family denied the right to grieve. By Ruby Hamad.'
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Mud,
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short story
Brown shapes move across the screen, leaving dark streaks in the mud behind them. Salt glitters, and some darker crystal. The bodies move purposefully, now and then a flash of teeth that must be laughter. Happy workers, covered in the earth they think they’re saving. Later the mud will dry on their skin, cracking and burning.
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Janine Mikosza : Homesickness,
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review
— Review of Homesickness : A Memoir 2022 single work autobiography ;'Two women meet in a cafe. One asks permission to write the other’s life “while she lives it”. The writer is a compassionate and observant interlocutor. Her subject, Jin, is wary and evasive. Their conversation examines words survivors of violence live with: memory, forgetting, blame, denial, doubt.'
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Antigone Kefala : Late Journals,
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review
— Review of Late Journals 2022 single work autobiography ;'Antigone Kefala, 86, is both a poet and prose writer. She was born in Romania and relocated to Australia in 1959 after living in Greece and New Zealand. Late Journals is the final in a trilogy that began with Summer Visit (2003), followed by Sydney Journals (2008), all three published by Giramondo Publishing.'